Full Wolf Moon: A Story of Lichenthropy

From the brilliant mind of Lincoln Child comes a suspenseful reinvention of The Wolfman as enigmalogist Jeremy Logan finds a remote community within the fictionalized Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, plagued by recent mysterious,  gruesome deaths. 
An investigator of the unexplained, Logan, originally there to work on his monograph, has been drafted into the series of apparent killings by a ranger and old friend, Randall Jessup, a former Yale classmate who's now a senior officer in New York's Division of Forest Protection. 

The bodies have all been turning up in the forest in virtually the same state — shredded, torn limb from limb—and Jessup asks Logan to investigate, knowing that he studies "phenomena beyond the bounds of regular science."

The attack may not be the first. Because it happened during a full moon, speculation floats around and Logan catches rumors among the townsfolk about  a family living in isolation called The Blakeneys. Reluctantly, people talk, filling him in on the legends. Within a day, he makes a trip to the woods where he discovers a wall built out of mud and sticks - an isolated Deliverance-like backwoods clan feared by locals, and a voice behind a rifle, barking at him to, "Git."

Logan senses a "terrible wrongness." Later, he finds out he's not the only trespasser, and he meets an independently wealthy researcher with two doctorates who is experimenting in his own secret laboratory . The researcher, Chase Feverbridge, has been tinkering in his lab, studying the DNA of the Blakeneys, in a bizarre experiment that, ultimately, forces Logan to run for his life. 

Publisher's Weekly calls it, ""Scary, atmospheric . . . Fans of The X Files will be enthralled." Forget The X Files. This book is light-years beyond that. It's simple: If you like blood, gore and superb storytelling, you'll love this read.